Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1909 — FROST DOES MUCH DAMAGE [ARTICLE]

FROST DOES MUCH DAMAGE

To Com and Buckwheat In Jasper County. MOSTLY IN NORTH PORTION Where Corn and Buckwheat Are Caught By Jack’s Early Visits Tuesday and Wednesday Nights— Damage On Muck Ground Will Reach Many Thousands of Dollars, and Buckwheat and Pickles are all Killed. 1 A damaging frost fell Tuesday and Wednesday nights on the low ground in this section of the state, doing an immense amount of damage to corn, buckwheat and pickles. The damage, of course, is confined principally to the lower ground and the muck lands, where the best prospect for corn in many years was .had up to the time of these frosts.'ll East of town, over about Lee and south thereof and practically all of the north part of the county and the muck lands in the Gifford distrlc were hit, and reports brought in from those districts are to the effect that practically all the buckwheat—of which there was quite a large acreage in the north part of the county —and the pickles are killed. Corn in places has been badly damaged no doubt, and the total loss to farmers in this section will reach a great many thousands of dolars. There is but little corn out of the way of the frost as yet, perhaps none, as even the best and furthest advanced would be chaffy If a hard frost should hit it now. Most of the corn on low grounds where the frost was most in evidence needed a month yet to mature.